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A Mindful Mother’s Day with ideas for Children and Parents

With Mother’s Day nearing, here are 3 quick tools to make your day special.

1. Free Printable Mothers Day Kids Yoga Tool

It made me so very happy to see this post on Instagram of our Free Mother’s Day Acrostic Poem Printable. You can get it here as well as a lesson plan for a Mother/Child yoga class!

Thanks to theHappyLotus for tagging me. It is well worth it to follow theHappyLotus for kids yoga inspiration. And while you are there, feel free to follow Young Yoga Masters on Instagram too!

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2. Mindfulness for Mothers – Techniques for When you Lose your Cool

Whether you have a mother or you have kids, somehow families can push your buttons at times!

This video will give you a head start on keeping your cool and help you NOT explode at a family get together.

3. Mindfulness for Children

A short video from our last teacher training weekend! I’m so proud of our graduates for an amazing practicum class with the children. I recommend a circle of kindness for Mother’s Day where you talk about how to be kind to others and how to be kind to yourself as well. Kids know what to do! Watch and see:

Whether you are celebrating with family, remembering a loved one, or creating your own way to nurture yourself,

Have a beautiful Mother’s Day.

Free Mother’s Day Yoga Printable

Is it just me, or does it seem that the older we get the more we appreciate mom?

My mom is now in her 70’s and when I look at her I see her through all her ages, all her love and caring, all the discipline and lessons, all her mom-ness. No one else is like her and no one ever will be. Being Mother is a sacred title, especially for a daughter or son.

With Mother’s Day coming up, it’s time to honour these ladies in some big or small way, and here are some ideas and a Free Printable that just may help.

Acrostic Poems and Yoga

Remember Acrostic Poems? You write a word or phrase for each letter of your theme word. Here’s an example for MOM.

The printable below has both yoga poses and a space for an Acrostic poem for Mother. These poems are easy to do, perfect for relaxing during the last 10 minutes of an hour long kids yoga class. In fact you can do them anytime with any word you want to use as a theme. Here are a few examples: Mother, Father, Summer, Gratitude.

Lesson Plan for a Mother Child Yoga Class

You can use this printable for a your lesson plan in a few ways:

The first five yoga poses are a great warm up on their own,
Each pose can also become partner yoga, facing back to back, holding hands and hopping, just having fun coordinating the movement together.
Partners can use their imagination and put two poses together. Think: a tree under the moonlight or leapfrog hop over an elephant! Give yourselves time to be creative.
Or do your own lesson plan and let folks take the printable home to do.

Here’s what it looks like and you may find this PDF easier to print: Mothers Day Yoga Printable Young Yoga Masters.

What Mother’s Day Yoga plans did you make? I’d love to hear about it in the comments.

Welcome to Our New Subscribers and News

I’d like to offer a big welcome to the 185 new subscribers to the Young Yoga Masters Newsletter. We are committed to providing you with useful resources to help you bring yoga to kids.

We hope this free information will put us top of mind when you want to take kids yoga teacher training, when you are looking for resources for yourself or recommending to others. Your support and referrals help us spread joy to children and youth through yoga. Thank you for being part of it.

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Wishing a Happy Mothers Day to all the Mothers of the world!

Free Kids Yoga Alphabet Printables

It’s that time of year when the school year is winding down. Teens are going to prom. Kids are getting lathered up with sunscreen. Teachers are getting ready to say goodbye. Parents are getting ready for a busy summer.

At Young Yoga Masters we’re winding down our kids classes and have some great free printables to give you today for your summer yoga. I’ll explain a little more about my end of year routine in schools and daycare too.

I’m also getting ready for the Summer Certification kids yoga training intensive. The intensive is an easy way to get your 95 Hour Certification quickly, in under 2 weeks in fact. Everything is included in that time. It makes for a memorable summer! Our upcoming course dates can be seen here if you are interested in continuing your education.

Printable Kids Yoga: A Lesson Plan you Print for Children to Take Home

When I’m teaching a kids yoga at a school or studio and there are only two or three classes left before the session ends, I introduce the students to the idea of doing a home yoga practice. This is not only for school age children, but preschool kids as well. I do it by reviewing poses we’ve done that year, providing handouts to take home, and reminding the students of what they have accomplished and already know.

Alphabet Yoga Names

My first choice for handouts are the letters of a child’s name using the Frog Yoga Alphabet. It is a personal touch for classes where I know each child. Not only does it remind kids of the yoga poses on their take-away, I present it as a special award for completing the series of yoga.

I use the Alphabet throughout the series, taking turns doing yoga poses for the letters of each person’s name. I print out each person’s name from the Frog Yoga Alphabet using the 1/4 page size in the PDF. Then in class I start with the first child in the circle or first child who is sitting quietly and ready, say its Michael, then I check if other children also have a name that starts with M. Depending on the age of the children, I may also ask who has an “M” anywhere in their name. Then everyone does “M,” Moon Pose (Crescent Moon).

We move onto the next person’s letter until we do everyone’s first letter.

At the end of the class I give each person their letter to colour as a wind down activity. I collect the letters at the door and use them in future classes till we reach the end of the series. At the final class the children get all their letters and can staple them together as they choose (book or banner are the most popular styles) and take them home.

a girl holding a banner made of letters of her name from the kids yoga alpahbet — Kids Get to Take Home their Yoga Name, I use the Printable Poses from the Frog Yoga Alphabet Teacher Training Online

When kids get to take home their letters, they have a visual reminder of the yoga poses they have just done and can do the poses on their own. The visual reminder reinforces what they have learned.

Important Business Tip for Your Kids Yoga Hand Outs

When I teach where I may not know who is coming, like in a community centre or school, then I give out a generic handout like the Summer Time Yoga or the Yoga Alphabet poster printables below.

One quick business tip before you grab them: If you are a teacher, print up some labels with info on your next class to stick on the back of your hand out, or get a rubber stamp to stamp your info on the back (or have the kids stamp them – they love to stamp things). This reminds parents about your class info, camps, or the yoga birthday parties you offer.

Take advantage of this opportunity to connect with parents and let them know how to reach you for more yoga!

Now, on to the printables.

Free Summer Time Yoga – Printable Colouring Page

Download the FREE Summer Time Yoga Printable Here

Free Yoga Alphabet Printable

a kids yoga alphabet poster with one yoga pose for each letter of the alphabet — This Yoga Alphabet is great for spelling Names!

Download the Free Yoga Alphabet Printable Here
(we recommend you print on 11″ x 17″ paper)

Frog Yoga Alphabet Printable Teacher Training

Discover the Frog Yoga Alphabet Teacher Training Double Pack Here

Are you going to utilize these Yoga Printables? How?

Share some comment love below.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Aruna

Lead Trainer, Young Yoga Masters

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